Taliban treatment of women

Why the interest in the Taliban's treatment of women? Most of Afghanistan was ruled by a small religious group called the Taliban (or 'Taleban') from 1996 until the end of 2001. During their administration Afghanistan was one of the poorest (perhaps the very poorest) nation in the world, and suffered from constant low-level warfare. The civilian infrastructure was all but destroyed, a large number of people were disabled by war or land mines, and the average life expectancy was about 43. There were human rights abuses against religious and racial minorities (especially the Shia muslims and Hazaras[?]) and against men and children. The irregularly enforced religious law was comparable to that of other Islamic countries (including the situation in Afghanistan both before and after the Taliban).

Despite all this, the treatment of women in this obscure country was singled out for especial attention in the west. Three main groups were interested in drawing attention to the plight of women; secular political opponents to the Taliban in Afghanistan, western feminists and the US government.

Secular opponents may have decided that framing the abuses of the Taliban as abuses against women would be more likely to generate sympathy in the west, as it had done recently in Yugoslavia and East Timor. Feminists took up the horror stories as examples of 'discrimination' against women, without mentioning that conditions men faced were comparable. Finally in 2001 the US government used concern for women's rights as a pretext for the invasion of Afghanistan. The Taliban were accused of requiring women to stay at home, forbidding women to work in any public place, forbidding the education of women and refusing to give women medical attention.

The Taliban themselves claimed that their policies were favourable to women, but made little attempt to promote a positive image of themselves and their policies outside of Afghanistan. Inside Afghanistan they seem to have made more of an effort, for example by crediting the creation of the Taliban to a desire by Mullah Omar to end the rape and abuses against women that were common place in the period before the Taliban, and by appealing to the idea that women needed extra protection during the period of fighting.

Exaggerated claims Almost all of the claims that were circulated about the Taliban treatment of women were greatly exaggerated while having a basis in truth. Considering each of the claims in turn then,

Women and education

Women and work

Women and health

Dress codes

Women and travel

(See Islam, Sharia law, hijab.)

Common misspelling and questions (FAQ)

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